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same-sex marriage is permit refusal to apologize is indica ted already encompass 79 per tive of their unrepentant vio cent of Canada’s population. lent homophobia. Incitement It is not yet permitted in to murder should never be Alberta, the Northwest Terri rewarded.” tories, New Brunswick, New OutRage also has targeted foundland, Nova Scotia, Beenie Man, Buju Banton, Nunavut, Prince Edward T.O.K., Bounty Killer, Caple- Island and Saskatchewan. ton and Sizzla. “We look forward to the day when all Canadians have the equal right to marry, when bout 4,000 people turned Parliament finally passes leg out for the first Gay islation to make that a reali Pride celebration in Reading, ty," said Cicely Me William of England, Sept. 4 at King’s Canadians for Equal M ar Meadow. riage. “Until then, we call on “It was successful and all the remaining provinces absolutely fantastic,” organ Michelle Ritchot and Stefphany to accept equal marriage and izer Laurence O ’Meara said. Cholakis were the first same-sex begin issuing marriage licens “It was not just the gay and couple to be married in es to same-sex couples." lesbian com m unities that Manitoba, Canada The federal government is came along, the people of expected to enact legislation redefining mar Reading enjoyed it as well riage to include same-sex couples in the coming months. About 57 percent of Canadians sup port same-sex marriage and 38 percent oppose ore than half of the queer members of the it, according to a July survey by Environics United Kingdom’s and Ireland’s National Research Group and the C enter for Research Union of Journalists say they’ve faced workplace and Information on Canada. discrimination because of their sexuality, a union survey has found. O f the 150 journalists questioned, 35 percent anada saw its first same-sex divorce said they’d been refused a promotion, 11 percent ^ Sept. 13. said they’d been denied work, 13 percent said Two Toronto women, identified as M.M. and they’d faced verbal abuse, and 2 percent report J.H ., got married June 18, 2003, eight days after ed sexual assault or disciplinary action because Ontario became the first of the four provinces of their sexual orientation. A third of the and one territory that have legalized full mar respondents cited managers as the perpetrators riage for gay couples. In granting the divorce, of the anti-gay activity. Ontario Superior Court Justice Ruth Meshur Ireland banned anti-gay discrimination in declared the section of the federal Divorce Act the workplace in 1999, and the United King that defined marriage as between a man and a dom did so last year. woman unconstitutional. A '"KAREN M. S WEIGERT, M D ^ ^ . 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